Guest blog this month
Instructor Ashley Cheeseman, who teaches in Orpington, Kent.
We have invited him to tell you about the wonderful Tai Chi Caledonia event held in July every year, in Stirling, Scotland.
" For anyone that’s never been heard about Tai Chi Caledonia, I
will let you in on a great weekend /week of Tai Chi and related arts taught by
some of Europe’s finest instructors as well as a home team as well.
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| 2015 |
The official line is, Tai Chi Caledonia offers high-quality
teaching of Tai Chi Chuan, Qigong and other Chinese Internal Arts, here in the
beautiful, natural environment of Stirling University Campus in the heart of
Scotland.
This is an understatement, as we found out, its mind
blowing, happy, no holds barred teaching.
We have been on three occasions now and each time it just gets better, on my last trip in 2018, twelve of us went and its smashing fun.
The instructors are all very open and want to teach and
share as much as they can and the atmosphere is electric.
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| 2017 |
The weekend sessions include choices of 48 x 45 minute
sessions allowing you to get a taste of a variety of approaches to tai chi
& Chinese internal arts. Where appropriate we have graded these choices
progressively from A – D, A being qigong and a softer approach, progressing all
the way through to martial applications or topics which would be better suited
to those with more experience in section D.
They also do a week long training camp, From Monday to
Thursday you can train for two and a half hours each morning and afternoon.
Each day you can work on 2 separate disciplines (one from category A and one
from category B) for 2.5 hours each, totalling 5 hours per day. This allows for
10 hours of intensive training in each of your chosen disciplines over 4 days.
Please select one from each category.
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| 2018 |
In my experience I’ve never been to such an open event, where everyone truly wants to share and share the arts.
We are planning to return in 2022 and meet up again with our
friends from across Europe.
You will make new friends and it opens doors to a new world
of international training should you wish to do so.
We tend to go up on Friday and leave on Sunday evening as
it’s a great weekend or stay the week.
Here is a link to the web site and I truly hope to meet a few of you up there."
https://www.taichicaledonia.com/
by Ashley J Cheeseman
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To find out more about Ashley and his school - here are his contact details.
